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Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 1
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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A hated judge is found dead in suspicious circumstances in a town in Minnesota with an Indian casino and a young Ojibwe Indian leaves home in a hurry. Former sheriff Cork O'Connor investigates if there is a connection.
2) Orphan train
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.6 - AR Pts: 13
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Between 1854 and 1929, so-called orphan trains ran regularly from the cities of the East Coast to the farmlands of the Midwest, carrying thousands of abandoned children whose fates would be determined by luck and chance. This is the story of one such child. As a young Irish immigrant, Vivian Daly was sent by rail from New York City to an uncertain future a world away. Returning east later in life, Vivian leads a quiet, peaceful existence on the coast...
3) Freedom
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.2 - AR Pts: 36
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English
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The idyllic lives of civic-minded environmentalists Patty and Walter Berglund come into question when their son moves in with aggressive Republican neighbors, green lawyer Walter takes a job in the coal industry, and go-getter Patty becomes increasingly unstable and enraged.
5) The foxman
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 3
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English
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A town boy sent to live on a remote wilderness farm forms a friendship with an elderly, disfigured man who teaches him many things.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5.2 - AR Pts: 11
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English
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This riveting novel of love and mystery from the author of The Things They Carried examines the lasting impact of the twentieth century's legacy of violence and warfare, both at home and abroad. When long-hidden secrets about the atrocities he committed in Vietnam come to light, a candidate for the U.S. Senate retreats with his wife to a lakeside cabin in northern Minnesota. Within days of their arrival, his wife mysteriously vanishes into the watery...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.7 - AR Pts: 16
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English
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Lieutenant Lucas Davenport, highly touted killer detective, invents intricate video games that he sells for cash. Called in to aid the Minneapolis team scrambling to stop a psychopathic serial woman-slayer, Lucas almost meets his match. The self-styled "mad dog" murderer views his rape/stabbings as a game as well, setting up obstacles for the police, carefully selecting his victims, and priding himself on clever moves.
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 24
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A searing and controversial story of drug and alcohol abuse and rehabilitation, told with the charismatic energy of Kesey's One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest and the revelatory power of Burroughs' Junky. By the time James Frey enters a drug and alcohol treatment facility, he has so thoroughly ravaged his body that the doctors are shocked he is still alive. Inside the clinic, he is surrounded by patients as troubled as he: a judge, a mobster, a former...
10) The survivors
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Sixteen-year-old Miles, thirteen-year-old Sarah, and their parents find themselves changing in many ways as they struggle to survive winter in a remote cabin, while keeping anyone in the nearby town from learning they are living there illegally after the devastation of volcanic eruptions drove them from their Minneapolis home.
11) Secret prey
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 5 - AR Pts: 17
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English
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A wealthy banker is dead, shot once in the chest during a hunting trip. There are many reasons for him to be killed, and many people who would do the deed. But who did? Lucas Davenport has an idea. But this routine murder investigation is about to turn into something different. A cat-and-mouse game with a killer who does not hesitate to take the fight to Lucas himself. And those he loves…
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR
WITH A NEW INTRODUCTION BY THE AUTHOR
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6 - AR Pts: 12
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When Jenny MacPartland met dashing artist Erich Krueger, he seemed like the answer to her prayers. Handsome, good with her two daughters, he only wanted to whisk her away from her poverty-stricken life. But when she married him and moved to his ranch, jenny began to worry. Stumbling across old family secrets, Jenny finds the shocking truth that lies behind a string of deaths--and fears she and her children may be next.
14) Night prey
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
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A serial killer is watching Sara Jensen from a building across the street and spending time in her bed when she is not home. To catch him, Deputy Chief Lucas Davenport has to provoke him and Sara is asked to be the decoy. By the author of Winter Prey.
15) Boundary waters
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Cork O'Connor mysteries volume 2
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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Former sheriff Cork O'Connor is hired to find a friend's daughter, a country-western singer missing in the wilds of Minnesota. O'Connor discovers FBI agents and a gangster from a casino are also looking for the woman, but they won't say why.
16) One night
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.5 - AR Pts: 6
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English
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Nineteen-year-old Kelly, ex-addict niece of a nationally-renowned Minnesota talk show host, has an unexpected adventure with the visiting prince of a war-torn Eastern European country.
17) Dead to you
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 3.8 - AR Pts: 7
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English
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Ethan was abducted from outside his house when he was just seven years old. Now, at sixteen, he has returned to his family. It's a miracle, at first. Then tensions start to build, and his family begins to fall apart all over again. If only Ethan could remember something, anything, about his life before, he'd be able to put the pieces back together. But there's something keeping his memory blocked, something unspeakable. -- Back cover.
18) Silent prey
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.9 - AR Pts: 14
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English
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This streamlined thriller is a rematch for Minneapolis homicide cop Lucas Davenport and the insane killer he caught in Sandford's earlier slasher novel, Eyes of Prey. After psychotic pathologist Dr. Mike Bekker escapes from a New York courthouse and begins a killing spree, NYPD Lt. Lily Rothenberg asks Davenport, her former lover, to come to Manhattan and help the investigation. Despite Bekker's ruined face (courtesy of an enraged Davenport), the...
19) Winter prey
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.8 - AR Pts: 15
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English
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In a rural area of northern Wisconsin, a family of three is savagely wiped out by the Iceman, who then torches their house. In pursuit of a damaging photograph, this fiend puts no value on human life. Enter Davenport, the laconic, slightly cynical ex-cop from Minneapolis, who uncovers several disturbing truths before determining the Iceman's identity.
20) How to meet boys
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 4.2 - AR Pts: 9
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English
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"Best friends Lucy and Mikayla are ready for the best summer of their lives, but when Mikayla falls for a boy from Lucy's past they realize their perfect summer might be over before it starts"--
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